IN ORDER TO SAVE TIME, IF YOUR ACTION IS JUST TO MOVE WHERE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE, I'M JUST GONNA QUOTE YOU TO SHOW THAT I SEE THE ACTION, BUT THATS IT. I don't think either of us wants to see me write "You walk to where you need to be" 50 times.
Jack Hansan, Pilot of ThunderTron, Team B Second-in-Command, Heading for rally point.
Drive ThunderTron to designated rally point.
Dominika hoists her rifle across her back as she begins to move to the rally point, looking for Auron to pair with as she did so.
As she moves, she pops an email to the rest of her squad.
Don't worry about me vaporizing everyone, I hate getting vaporized as much as the next guy; I'll be careful. As for my loadout, I've got a microwave amp and a laser rifle. I shoot people and I will fry people from as far away as I can.
Microwave Amp
Mark 1 suit
Laser Rifle
We'll assume you can find him. Shouldn't be hard.
((Not entirely sure... Xantalos pretty much attached me to a team, do I still come here?))
Yes
((Reposting action from the other thread))
Team G, Anton Chernozorov, engineer. Main hangar area.
Anton makes sure that the Party Wagon and the Black Death are ready to take off whenever they need to. Then reports to Milno for further orders.
((Ship names and stats reminder, for PW and everyone else:
The Southern Cross: the assault ship/modified space tug. Four laser cannons, PD lasers, and heavy armor.
The Party Wagon: the hot-dropship/modified Courier. 8 cutting laser turrets and two fusion missiles. Assigned to Mobile Reserve.
The Black Death: the "kill button" flying plasma cannon/modified Blackship. High speed, massive shipbuster plasma cannon, six shots. Only for emergency use.
Tweedledee: the standard hauler ship. Two cutting laser turrets. Unassigned, free for use.
Tweedledum: the (almost) FTL modified hauler ship. Two cutting laser turrets. Unassigned, free for use.
The Merchant: the cargo transport ship, unmodified, noncombat. Will likely be used for salvage ops after battle.))
Anton Chernozorov's reference sheet
They're as prepped as they can be, though they'll all need at least a minute to do final takeoff procedures and launch.
REPOST:
Maurice Sanctor - Team D "Marabou" Medic
Finishing the e-mail to Simus, Maurice left his research terminal and hurried off to suit up and gather equipment.
The familiar excitement of 'Corps assignment, I missed it so much.
To the Team D rally point!
Prepare to do math. Complex math, lots of it.
((@GM I don't suppose I managed to synthesize any meaningful amount of that substance, did i?))
Maurice Sanctor, Chirurgeon
Mk II
MFM
Simus's incendiary/chemical grenades x3
the Instrument ('scalpel' knife)
the Pandora's Bag (complete with something living inside and "I'm not coming back" note)
the Glaive/the Twitchblade (alien throwing star)
Emergency Kit 1/3
Medifoam can x2
Portable cooler
Good at Med, Aux, Uncon
We'll say you have 1 can of it.
You practice your long division.
((LET'S MAKE A THREAD FOR EVERY TEAM! WOO WE HAVE OUR OWN SUB-BOARD!!
Hmm... We could possibly make a thread for Defense, Assault, Boarding and Reserves though.))
I was considering it honestly.
Repost
Jack Catar soldier -Team B, Platypus in transit to rally point
Jack grabs his gear and heads to the bunker while typing on the wristpad. Its go time.
I have a Mk 1 suit, a longsword, and a laser rifle. I have decent training in conventional weaponry. In theory I can use unconventional and exotic weaponry, but I wouldn't try it.
Head to the team B rally point
Repost.
Team D "Marabou"
Felix, having already gotten his equipment in order this morning, heads to his team's rally point.
(The Man-Nip is in his locker, along with his tokens. The rest of 'his' possessions are with him.)
Team D "Marabou"
"Oh great, I get the team with religious nuts..." Felix mumbled to himself, off-radio.
- Mk1
- Microwave Psychokinetic Amplifier
- Some kind of flamethrower* (not hot enough to burn through Mk suits)
- Morul's Gauss Rifle*
*I assume I still have this stuff, anyway. I never posted an action to return either, but the flamethrower was given in place of a team fund for the biohorror mini-mission and the Idiots in Space file doesn't list either under my inventory. (It never did.)
As for stats and skills, I've got a straight +1 bonus to Exotic and a 1/3 chance of a bonus to Conventional, as well as the minimum strength to use a gauss rifle and 5 willpower.
Team F: Blobfish
"Right, you heard the brain! Auron, Dominika, Lerman, Xan, assemble at the rally point. Since we have some newbies, I'm gonna pair ya off. Dominika, you're with Auron, Lerman, you're with me. Xan, take whatever form suits your fancy, and go easy on the amps. Don't want you vaporising us. Same with you Dominika. Miyamoto, anywhere in particular you want us to go?"
Get the team together at the rally point, and make sure we got all the Sods too. If Miyamoto has a specific area in mind for us, get the team moving in that direction.
((It begins.))
Team B - Platypus!
Be where I'm supposed to be, wearing space suit and brandishing High Energy Projector menacingly. There will be blood and whatnot.
Team G (Reserve) - Flint Westwood - Flying Heavy Soldier
Flint instinctively looked up, half expecting the drop pods to fall on him any second.
It was good while it lasted.
He ran back to Gilgamesh, patting him on his leg affectionately before getting in, the hatch closing behind him as he typed on the keyboard.
Ask Steve: "Any ideas about what they know? Is this a scouting party or an assault force? I'm asking because I want to know how we'll approach this. Should we wait a bit and ambush them once they're spread out or attack the moment we see them? Any idea where they'll land?"
He looked at his teammates and used the thumb of the hand of the battlesuit that was still usable to point at himself.
@Team: "I'm going to go find a vantage point. Make sure I can see what's going on around here, be able to see whoever needs help and be able to get there quickly. Anybody wants a ride? Any objections team leader?"
Unless the team leader objects, fly to a nearby high point from which I can keep an eye on as much of the surrounding area as possible. Take anyone who requests a ride.
Just gonna put you where you're supposed to be for now.
>Size indicates it's not an assault, at least not yet. We're gonna handle it by letting me shoot it out of the sky. Team B "Platypus" Medic, Steve Saint
REPOSTS
Saint sat on the edge of his bunk and silently listened to Miyamoto's speech. After it completes, he heaved a deep sigh and hung his head for several seconds. When he raised his face, it had a determined scowl.
He got up, and started walking towards the hanger to suit up while typing a message out on his wristpad.
This is Steve Saint, reporting in. Everyone, this is your wake up alarm, let's get to the southern bunker now. That means you too Jack, you don't get special priority just because you're in a battle bot.
After Steve suits up, he quickly heads to the armory and quickly buys an emergency kit. Then he heads to the southern bunker and begins inspecting it- making sure the strange machine he got for christmas is still there, and connecting his wristpad to the cameras. Finally, he charges a dynamic AUX bonus.
After he finishes with his inspection, he texts Miyamoto.
Your speech mentioned limiting communications between teams, to keep our channels clear. However, you are a frontline combatant, AND our senior tactical advisor; I would think it prudent to select someone to be mission control, so that they can listen to all the chatter and filter the important tactical information to you.
Of course I recommend myself, as I'm team Platypus' medic, and we're manning the heaviest defenses- I have very little that I have to do. But even if you don't want me, I really think you should consider appointing someone to the position.
I am currently equipped with a standard MKI suit, a Sub-Exoskeleton Model C "Confidence", and an emergency kit. Nothing more.
As far as combat skills, I have none. I am very skilled with computer systems and medical aid however. Also, I may be able to reprogram my exoskeleton to allow me to fire conventional weapons, although that program has not been extensively tested and is therefore potentially dangerous.
Also, I have moved the strange device I received for Christmas into the bunker. It has not been tested, however I believe it is an area of effect weapon; it may be prudent to activate it if enemies overrun our position.
Bought, verified, and place taken.
Team C, Canglerfish
Stick to Miyamoto until actual combat starts.
Go find Anglerfish team and get ready to KICK SOME MOTHERBLEEPING ARSE.
"Hi, who are you?"
Denzel- Team E, "Aye-Aye" Leader
Move out to the team E bunker, wearing my Mk1 and carrying my combi-weapon, monoatomic sword, cutlass, brass knuckles, and extra laser rifle. Drop the extra laser rifle in the bunker for anyone who needs it. Also, in my year-long action, I asked to buy a microwave manipulator, but only if the manipulator would use Uncon, and if it used INT instead, I asked to buy a microwave amp instead. Which one did I buy?
As he moves out, Denzel composes a message to his team and sends it out. "Hello there, team Aye-Aye, or as I'll be calling you guys, team E. As you probably know, I'm Denzel, your team leader. I'm going to need to know what exactly you can do and what you have. If we work together and don't kill each other, we might just make it through this.
This is a repost, just for the record.
Manipulators use uncon and int for "ammo" So you bought that.
Reposting. Team G member.
Jim hangs out wherever Team G is supposed to be, because it looks like Miyamoto plunked us in the area that got nuked. I could be wrong.
Don't worry, thats been paved over and replaced with a park. Very little radiation. You'll be fine.
Gear up with the MK2, cutting torch and gauss pistol + ammo, and proceed to the blobfish rally point.
Mark 2
Cutting Torch
Gauss Handgun (20 ammo)
(I'm prolly fucked)
Team A; "Ostrich" - Charles, Team A Second-in-Command - Hephaestus HQ Chokepoint 2
Charles deploys his turret in a concealed location that could cover as much of the area as possible while still remaining behind cover, it is loaded with the ClF3 magazine. He equips his arm cannon if he can do so and sill operate the turret. He also gives access for Team A units and, if allowed, Team G and Steve to remotely control the turret as well. He goes into a different piece of cover away from his turret.
You all should access to my turret as well now, you may control it through your wristpads but please only do so if you are experienced with conventional weapons. It uses rounds designed for area denial, so please try to avoid collateral damage when using them. I fear that I can do little should they get to my location, so don't expect to rely on me. That being said, I will attempt to hold them off if they arrive here.
Stats: - Strength: 1 (-1)
- Dexterity: 1 (-1)
- Endurance: 5 (1/3)
- Charisma: 17 (+1)
- Intelligence: 3
- Willpower: 5 (+1)(1/3)
Skills:- Speech: 9 (+1) (+1)
- Intuition: 1
- Handiwork: 0 (-1)
- Conventional Weapons: 3 (1/3)
- Unconventional Weapons:0 (-1)(-1)
- Exotic weapons: 0 (-1)
- Auxiliary systems: 0 (-1)
- Medical tech: 1
Profession: Grunt (+1 Speech, -1 Uncon)
Inventory:- Robotic body
- 'Pawn' SFE Rifle (30/30 rounds) (1 ClF3 magazine, loaded) (1 convenional magazine)
- Arm Cannon
Spells:- Summon Sheep: Attempts to summon a hallucinatory sheep of suspected eldritch origin; results may vary
Various gunwork done and and done.
Repost
Team F Blobfish
Xan awaits from the hibernation he'd put himself in for the remaining time.
So it begins. Once more into the fray, it would appear.
Suit up with my equipment, head over to the rally point.
Provided we survive, Morul, I expect you to deliver me the token you owe me.
((It wouldn't be too incongruous to assume I'm still the dragon thing, right?))
Stats:
Endurance 10 (2/3)
Will 25 (+1)(2/3)
All else zero
Skills:
Intuition: 5 (1/3)
Exotic: 8 (+1)(2/3)
Profession: Transhuman
Inventory:
Microwave Amp
Mass Manipulator Amp
Katana
Mk 2
Special Attributes:
Shapeshifter
Head to armory and buy a standard gauss clip.
Rendezvous at Team F rally point, pair up with dominika.
Industrial exosuit + Jump pack
MkI suit, echolocation + thermal vision.
Bone armor + skull helmet+skull pauldron.
Reiterpallasch (+1 str when stabbing)
Auxiliary weapon mount, right forearm.
Heavy pulse rifle with triphase gauss barrel, aux mount. (I need a new name for this thing.)
Improvised medkit
Melted shield, mounted on left arm.
Microwave field manipulator
((@pw: The bullets worked fine, it was my stake thrower that didnt live up to expectations.))
Bought and walked.
Reposted from the other thread.
Team D
Make sure I got all my stuff back from Auron. Get six molotovs and a roll of duct tape from the armory. Join Felix at the rally point. Smoke a bluesmoke.
Robot body
Civic defenders longcoat
"Number gun" Nyars artifact
Laser rifle
pickaxe
molotovs
High handiwork
medium con
medium aux
Walked and smoked and such
--repost from other thread--
Team B - en route to team C bunker
Pancaek start heading outside, mentally making an email. ((have I ever said how cool I find it that robobieded poeple don't need to type on their wristpad to send mails? ))
Allright platypus squad, gather at our rally point, the bunker just south of the battery defences.
I also want an overview of what equipment you currently have and what you can bring to the table skill-wise. In jack's case, I want to know what kind of weapons clunkbot has.
And remember what General De Bergerac said, no nagging his ear off. If you've got a problem, you can comm me.
Make haste for Team B rally point in the bunker. Assess distance from the laser defences to the bunker. While I'm going there, inspect the steve-bot. Also, see if I can smuggle the gauss pistol and the extra guass clips out of the briefcase from last mission.
Walked
Steve bots aren't terribly visible from here, just glints of chrome and a hot point of flame zipping around in the air above the base.
Also no.
Brother Lars - Team D Leader
As he moved out to the Team D rally point, Lars addressed his teammates. "Gentlemen, the time we have prepared for is nigh. Brother Maurice- I have worked with you enough to know and trust you. You shall take command if I fall. By the good grace of Steve, we are now well and truly ready for anything. Under the leadership of his saintly generals, we will repel this attack. By the saving hands of Algis, may we be safe. May Vo-nos guide our feet and blades and Ingram deliver our bullets. May Pathmas ever be in our favor, and all praises to the Most Glorious Steve. Amen."
He then sends out a message to the rest of the team leaders.
Fellow team leaders,
I have appointed Brother Maurice as my second in command, in case something should happen to me. May he lead with the Grace of Steve if required.
Move to rally point for Team D.
Team D fellows: Mind giving a quick synopsis of your gear/skills so I know what we're ready for? Something like this:
Mk3 Suit with Civ Body Armor
Gauss Rifle
Walking Nuke
High Con bonus
((repost))
Go find 'Team B' and join them as I am the lonely post-human unpicked for the teams.
Skylar - Team C, Support :: Moving to Bunker C
Moving to the bunker, boss.
To bunker C!
Lyra, Team G, Cassowary
Regroup with Feyri and Jim
Gorat 'Chin' Ivanos, Team E "Aye-Aye"
Denzel- Team E, "Aye-Aye" Leader
Move out to the team E bunker, wearing my Mk1 and carrying my combi-weapon, monoatomic sword, cutlass, brass knuckles, and extra laser rifle. Drop the extra laser rifle in the bunker for anyone who needs it. Also, in my year-long action, I asked to buy a microwave manipulator, but only if the manipulator would use Uncon, and if it used INT instead, I asked to buy a microwave amp instead. Which one did I buy?
As he moves out, Denzel composes a message to his team and sends it out. "Hello there, team Aye-Aye, or as I'll be calling you guys, team E. As you probably know, I'm Denzel, your team leader. I'm going to need to know what exactly you can do and what you have. If we work together and don't kill each other, we might just make it through this.
This is a repost, just for the record.
"Gorat Ivanos. Microwave amp, Mk II suit, and laser rifle. Also a strange suit with untested button, and voices of former HMRC members in my head, both courtesy of Nyars. Which reminds me, this is a trigger for my shock implant in case I endanger the mission."
Do wear that suit under the MK II. If something hits me in the chest, I'm likely screwed anyway. Report to Denzel, give him the shock trigger.
Str 3; Dex 3; End 3; Cha 7; Int 4; Wil 15//Spe 0; Int 1; Han 0 (-1); Con 1; Unc 0; Exo 12; Aux 3 (+1); Med 0
Mk II Suit; Microwave PK Amp; laser rifle; 3 tokens: normal cigarettes; blue smokes; datapad (with platformer shooter); nanoghosts; shock trigger (with me); odd suit worn under Mk II.
Appearance: 5'11'', 170 pounds in a rather unmuscular frame, shoulder-long brown hair, short goatee, brown eyes, a rather long chin that earned him his nickname. Age 32
Half a robot foot. Robot right arm. Wears basic clothes when not in the Mk II.
Worn, reported, given
Miyamoto has graciously divided you all up into teams
With all the grace and style of a bureaucratic accountant.
Miyamoto, Team C leader, running to bunker.
Inventory:
Uncon Decomp (Perfect)
Thermite thrower. (4/10)
extra canister of thermite
Avatar of war: Standard humanoid.
Universal Manip.
Heavy laser.
Monorazor Naginata
Piezoelectric shard launcher
Stats:
strength: 3
dext: 13 (2/3)
endu: 5 (1/3)
char: 3
intelligence: 20 (+1) (+1/3)
will: 6 (1/3)
Skills:
speech: 0(-1)
intuition: 1
handiwork: 1
conventional: 1
unconventional: 13 (+1) (+2/3)
exotic: 3(-1)(1/3)
auxiliary: 3 (+1) (1/3)
medical: 1
Miya action: run towards our designated bunker. Check out the new naginata.
Your speech mentioned limiting communications between teams, to keep our channels clear. However, you are a frontline combatant, AND our senior tactical advisor; I would think it prudent to select someone to be mission control, so that they can listen to all the chatter and filter the important tactical information to you.
Of course I recommend myself, as I'm team Platypus' medic, and we're manning the heaviest defenses- I have very little that I have to do. But even if you don't want me, I really think you should consider appointing someone to the position.
"A very valid point. however, I didn't pick a specific second-in-command because I consider Steve to be our mission control, and that he'd handle stuff like directing artillery fire or providing intell to the right people. If I really had to choose someone for something like this Simus seems to be in the best position for it, being in the command center already.
But I do like it when people show constructive initiative, so if the other teams don't maintain radio discipline then I'll contact you to help with that."
Right... Miyamoto, do you want a transport on site at bunker C? Or should I just gather up the kid and meet you there?
Miya, while running to his starting position, replied to the question of his teammate:
"Just walk there and take the rest of our squad with you. We don't know where they'll land yet, and we might need the ships for ferrying other teams around."
((Not entirely sure... Xantalos pretty much attached me to a team, do I still come here?))
Yep, you got drafted into team C, so just follow Miya or something to get to your position.
Sean ship snip
Very handy, added to wiki mission page. Or I would, if wikia weren't in maintenance mode right now.
Miyamoto, anywhere in particular you want us to go?
"Not yet, just head to your designated starting position. We'll have to wait and see what the UWM does next before we can respond."
Miya then contacts Milno: "Hey, I need you to post either a sod sniper squad, or maybe a few of your troops, at the upper right bunker. Just so we have something there."
Basically the same as the old one, just the blade has been flattened and a monoatomic razor type filament has been affixed instead of the normal cutting surface.
Dern, team E
You need things punch, boss? I punch with mighty fist. Can also shoot things with giant kapow slugger if punch not suited.
Follow team leader, making fisticuff motons.
Team G "Cassowary" (Reserve) - Milno "Honey Badger" Enedrasi - Leader
Fully enclosed in his characteristic armor and prepared to jump into the fray at a moment's notice, Milno put a hand behind his head and checked the wristpad on his other arm. His the faceplate of his ancient bronze-colored helmet was down both because he wanted and possibly because near-strangers were much more likely to follow the orders of a faceless leader than those of a not particularly reliably-looking teenager.
@Team: "I'm going to go find a vantage point. Make sure I can see what's going on around here, be able to see whoever needs help and be able to get there quickly. Anybody wants a ride? Any objections team leader?"
"Nah, you can go check things outside but remember the reserve team's job isn't playing the hero on a whim. Don't get yourself killed before you're actually needed somewhere critical."
Miya then contacts Milno: "Hey, I need you to post either a sod sniper squad, or maybe a few of your troops, at the upper right bunker. Just so we have something there."
"Sure. Sending just a sniper squad unless someone feels like taking up guard duty with them. Heads up, the old man in a battlesuit said he wanted to perch somewhere to look useful and I let him."
Send a sod sniper squad to the upper right bunker with instructions to report the situation every now and then and any anomalies as soon as they are noticed.
Sod squad sent to (which letter is that?) bunker.
Gorat 'Chin' Ivanos, Team E "Aye-Aye"
Follow Teal.
Str 3; Dex 3; End 3; Cha 7; Int 4; Wil 15//Spe 0; Int 1; Han 0 (-1); Con 1; Unc 0; Exo 12; Aux 3 (+1); Med 0
Mk II Suit; Microwave PK Amp; laser rifle; 3 tokens: normal cigarettes; blue smokes; datapad (with platformer shooter); nanoghosts; shock trigger (with me); odd suit worn under Mk II.
Appearance: 5'11'', 170 pounds in a rather unmuscular frame, shoulder-long brown hair, short goatee, brown eyes, a rather long chin that earned him his nickname. Age 32
Half a robot foot. Robot right arm. Wears basic clothes when not in the Mk II.
Team H - "Lemming"
Marcius idles for now. Waiting. Waaaiiitiiinnnggg.
for now, standby orders to Reinforce wherever we are hard pressed.
Marcius
Con and Uncon user
-1's to Exotic, and technical skills
Gauss Rifle
Kinetic Amp
A few empty minutes pass as nothing happens. Eventually, out toward the north, near C team's bunker, the laser battery rotates in it's gimbal and focuses on some point in the sky. It holds there for an instant, precise motors jerking the laser back and forth by fractions of an inch. A few minutes later a bit of debris rains down over the distant northern mountains, barely visible to the naked eye.
>Thats the welcome wagon dealt with. Now they're gonna try and scramble as many ground troops as they can, to take this place back without having to destroy it. More time passes; five minutes, then ten. Eventually Steve speaks again.
>The three largest ships have launched skeletal shuttles. They're hot dropping in troops. Number is difficult to tell. Tracking hundreds of signatures; many are probably decoys but there's still a hell of a lot of bogeys incoming.Both of the nearby laser batteries jerk into motion, their gimbal platforms rotating and their cooling manifolds glowing bright red as they fire in near continuous bursts at unseen targets somewhere in low orbit or piercing through the high atmosphere. The chrome glints of the steve bots ascend and vanish into the dark, vaguely reddish clouds above the base. Then nothing. Silence, save for the audible hum of electric motors turning the gimbals. And then fire rains from the sky.
The still functional shuttles come in first, flaming comets of rocket exhaust with a barely visible black, metallic speck at their tip. They come nearly straight down, pulling hard upwards as they break the clouds. They slow nearly to a stop as they skim in, barely feet above the ground, but only for an instant, dropping their payload of soldiers before screaming up in an erratic climb and back into the clouds. The wreckage comes next; chucks of severed metal and still firing rocket engines, debris falling or propelled at super sonic speeds. The wreckage pelts the dusty soil like buckshot, raising red plumes around the base, the sword and the bunker system. Luckily, they manage not to hit a goddamn thing.
>The first troops are on the ground. Concentrated near Teams C, D and B, outside our frontlines, moving inward. Reading indicate infantry and armor, numbers unknown. The area around the base, the cradles and the bunkers has become a swirling mess of dust and smoke from the impacts of debris, and the men stationed in the bunkers can see little but vague shapes moving beyond them.
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